Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postillation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pos-til-la-tion
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of postillating; writing of postils in a text, or (Christianity) preaching by exposition of Scripture.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Latin postillatio.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: postillatio

Usage

Inflected Forms

postillations (plural)

Questions

What does postillation mean?: The act of postillating; writing of postils in a text, or (Christianity) preaching by exposition of Scripture.
Where does postillation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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